Art Miami, the leading international, contemporary and modern art fair, took place December 1-6. Our Havana photography instructor Adrian Fernandez was part of the SCOPE art show. Adrian's exhibit presented new work from his latest series "Requiem", color photographs printed on metallic papers that explore the identity of groups or social sectors in Havana and throughout the world using elements which define it best from an iconographic point of view.
"I am very much interested in the world of images, and in how, through them, reality or the possible “realities” are conformed and perceived. In this case I take as incentive 20th century Cuban postage stamps, which symbolically show part of our history and idiosyncrasy. Working on a printed image gives me the possibility to revisit the national past on the basis of the esthetic, cultural, social or political paradigms of a certain period. The pieces seek to establish connections between the present Cuban identity, its future projection and the archetypes of the past. In this way, each work is an attempt to understand and question our reality based on the image that has been constructed of it."
--Adrian Fernandez
Learn more about Adrian's exhibit at SCOPE Miami and visit his website.
The Great Rock, Adrian Fernandez 2015
Iliana Cepero, Open Arts adjunct instructor, and art historian and curator, was the moderator for the panel "New Role for Art in Cuba" which took place on December 3 at Art Miami. Iliana teaches Topics in Cuban Culture and Contemporary Cuba: Art, Politics, History, Ideas in Tisch Open Arts. Read Iliana's bio.